The Angels purchased the contracts of 1B Mark Trumbo and RHP Anthony Ortega. Tony Jackson reports the Dodgers have not made an offer to C.C. Sabathia. Update: Via David Pinto, Jeff Sackmann at Brew Crew Ball relays an extensive analysis of why the Yankees' $140M offer and the Brewers' $100M offer ar...

Cue up The Police. Microsoft just sent out an email advising all Live Foldershare users that a new product will be announced in December called Windows Live Sync. It will replace Foldershare and will include the following enhancements: More folders and files—sync up to 20 folders with 20,000 files...

Still no word on an update to the mini or on the refreshed 17. Still waiting on the Intel X25-E SSD Drive (or a comparable one from Samsung). Meantime, I did finally get out of keychain hell by just nuking ALL my keychains. Thought that would be a nightmare, but it really wasn‘t. Life is so mu...

Here are thoughts on three topics this week (that are coincidentally all from Google): Google gives natural search optimization its blessing with the SEO Starter Guide.  Google has released an SEO Starter Guide, which is 22 pages long, and covers many of the basics about natural search engine o...

A few weeks ago we sent word ’round that we were going to be launching a jobs board dedicated to web and other tech-related jobs in Canada. We often get asked to list jobs, and the jobs board at the conference is always really popular, so we thought a board would be a good idea. After all, whi...

The circulation of currency has long intrigued humankind. From ancient times, people have no doubt wondered about the history of the coins and bills found in their possession. Where have they traveled? What stories could they tell? From an economic point of view, money is something of an enigma. Its...

[anton recently forwarded me this bit, which i had forgotten entirely. ver' nice.] Living with a Writer for Dumbasses By Rob Dalton When the good folks at Kitchen Dick Press asked us to add a book aboutliving with writers to their Dumbass reference series, we were delighted. Wehave been addicts ...

The Times is reporting that Brandon Wood was cut from his Dominican winter league team. Brandon Wood, the Angels' top prospect and a candidate to start in their infield next season, has been dismissed from his winter club because of poor performance. Wood hit .167 for Estrellas in the Dominican wint...

Californication, Showtime, Airs Sundays 10pm E/P Episode: “Down and Out In Beverly Hills” (Season Two, Episode Eight) Synopsis: Hank spends the day at the home of Janie Jones trying to get the back story on her relationship with Lew Ashby. When Janie’s husband comes home early, Hank is for...

Description: SAMSA (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) has two booklets available to help siblings of children affected by FASD: What Do I Do? Helping Your Kids Understand Their Sibling's Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder "T...